Letter, Diaries

International diplomat, savvy businessman, devout Catholic, fluent in six languages, an intellectual who counted Europe’s finest scholars among his friends, Peter Paul Rubens were always first a pain …

Ilya Yefimovich Repin (1844 – 1930) was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tol …

Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911) was a French figure painter, educator and theorist. Like a typical academic artist, Lefèbvre started his career with the traditional subject matter of histories and …

Eugene Delacroix was the greatest French painter of the Romantic Movement. Delacroix’s output was enormous. After his death his executors found more than 9, 000 paintings, pastels, and drawings in hi …

The highlights of this book are the 85 color plates of Prud’hon’s academic figure drawings, or ‘acadamies’ as they are known. These drawings dignified and stunningly beautiful. Unfortunately, Prud’ho …

Charles Le Brun was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV ‘the greatest French artist of all time’, he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influenced by Nicol …

Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the U …

Paul Cézanne forms the connection linking late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century’s new contour of Cubism. Matisse and Picasso together recognize that ‘Cezanne is the father of all …

Charles Le Brun (1619 – 1690) was a French painter and art theorist. Declared by Louis XIV ‘the greatest French artist of all time’, he was a dominant figure in 17th-century French art and much influ …

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth reveals the beginnings of the forming of Muir’s special relation towards nature. He considered the encounters with nature as quite an adventure and at first, paid sp …